Chimney-piece
(n.) A decorative construction around the opening of a fireplace. |
Colorado group
() A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region. |
Dakota group
() A subdivision at the base of the cretaceous formation in Western North America |
First-rate
(a.) Of the highest excellence |
First-rate
(n.) A war vessel of the highest grade or the most powerful class. |
Group
(n.) A cluster, crowd, or throng |
Group
(n.) An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic |
Group
(n.) A variously limited assemblage of animals or plants, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera, or even several orders. |
Group
(n.) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems |
Group
(n.) To form a group of |
Harlech group
() A minor subdivision at the base of the Cambrian system in Wales. |
Laramie group
() An extensive series of strata, principally developed in the Rocky Mountain region, as in the Laramie Mountains, and formerly supposed to be of the Tertiary age, but now generally regarded as Cretaceous, or of intermediate and transitional character. It contains beds of lignite, often valuable for coal, and is hence also called the lignitic group. See Chart of Geology. |
Llandeilo group
() A series of strata in the lower Silurian formations of Great Britain |
Ludlow group
() A subdivision of the British Upper Silurian lying below the Old Red Sandstone |
Piece
(n.) A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing |
Piece
(n.) A definite portion or quantity, as of goods or work |
Piece
(n.) Any one thing conceived of as apart from other things of the same kind |
Piece
(n.) A literary or artistic composition |
Piece
(n.) A musket, gun, or cannon |
Piece
(n.) A coin |
Piece
(n.) A fact |
Piece
(n.) An individual |
Piece
(n.) One of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn. |
Piece
(n.) A castle |
Piece
(v. t.) To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces |
Piece
(v. t.) To unite |
Piece
(v. i.) To unite by a coalescence of parts |
Portage group
() A subdivision of the Chemung period in American geology. See Chart of Geology. |
Potsdam group
() A subdivision of the Primordial or Cambrian period in American geology |
Quebec group
() The middle of the three groups into which the rocks of the Canadian period have been divided in the American Lower Silurian system. See the Chart of Geology. |
Rate
(v. t. & i.) To chide with vehemence |
Rate
(n.) Established portion or measure |
Rate
(n.) That which is established as a measure or criterion |
Rate
(n.) Valuation |
Rate
(n.) A tax or sum assessed by authority on property for public use, according to its income or value |
Rate
(n.) Order |
Rate
(n.) Ratification |
Rate
(n.) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time |
Rate
(n.) The order or class to which a war vessel belongs, determined according to its size, armament, etc. |
Rate
(n.) The class of a merchant vessel for marine insurance, determined by its relative safety as a risk, as A1, A2, etc. |
Rate
(v. t.) To set a certain estimate on |
Rate
(v. t.) To assess for the payment of a rate or tax. |
Rate
(v. t.) To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount, value, or quality of |
Rate
(v. t.) To ratify. |
Rate
(v. i.) To be set or considered in a class |
Rate
(v. i.) To make an estimate. |
Second-rate
(a.) Of the second size, rank, quality, or value |
Water rate
() A rate or tax for a supply of water. |
Wenlock group
() The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain |
group
grouping | any number of entities (members) considered as a unit |
cinch breeze
picnic
snap duck soup
child's play
pushover
walkover
piece of cake | any undertaking that is easy to do, marketing this product will be no picnic |
| group practice | (medicine) the practice of medicine by a group of physicians who share their premises and other resources |
group therapy
group psychotherapy | psychotherapy in which a small group of individuals meet with a therapist, interactions among the members are considered to be therapeutic |
c fuck
fucking
screw
screwing
ass
nooky
nookie
piece of ass
piece of tail
roll in the hay
shag shtup ff | slang for sexual intercourse |
| group action | action taken by a group of people |
| group participation | participation by all members of a group |
Adapid
Adapid group | extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit, abundant in North America and Europetomillion years ago, their descendents probably include the lemurs, some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins |
Omomyid
Omomyid group | extinct tiny nocturnal lower primates that fed on fruit and insects, abundant in North America and Europetomillion years ago, probably gave rise to the tarsiers, some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins |
bikini
two-piece | a woman's very brief bathing suit |
chessman
chess piece | any of white and black pieces used in playing the game of chess |
collector's item
showpiece
piece de resistance | the outstanding item (the prize piece or main exhibit) in a collection |
firearm
piece small-arm | a portable gun, he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster |
| fowling piece | a light shotgun used for fowling |
furniture
piece of furniture
article of furniture | furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy, they had too much furniture for the small apartment, there was only one piece of furniture in the room |
| fur-piece | a neckpiece made of fur |
| knee piece | armor plate that protects the knee |
man
piece | game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games, he taught me to set up the men on the chess board, he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage |
masking piece
masking | scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen |
objet d'art
art object
piece | a work of art of some artistic value, this store sells only objets d'art, it is not known who created this piece |
| period piece | any work of art whose special value lies in its evocation of a historical period |
| piece | a separate part of a whole, an important piece of the evidence |
| piece | an item that is an instance of some type, he designed a new piece of equipment, she bought a lovely piece of china, |
piece of cloth
piece of material | a separate part consisting of fabric |
| piece of leather | a separate part consisting of leather |
| set piece | a piece of scenery intended to stand alone as part of the stage setting |
| three-piece suit | a business suit consisting of a jacket and vest and trousers |
two-piece two-piece suit
lounge suit | a business suit consisting of a matching jacket and skirt or trousers |
work
piece of work | a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing, it is not regarded as one of his more memorable works, the symphony was hailed as an ingenious work, he was indebted to the pioneering work of John Dewey, the work of an active imagination, erosion is the work of wind or water over time |
yard goods
piece goods | merchandise in the form of fabrics sold by the yard |
| pace rate | the relative speed of progress or change, he lived at a fast pace, he works at a great rate, the pace of events accelerated |
| piece | a distance, it is down the road a piece |
bargain rate
cheapness
cut rate
cut price | a price below the standard price |
blood group
blood type | human blood cells (usually just the red blood cells) that have the same antigens |
A
type A
group A | the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen |
B
type B
group B | the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen |
AB
type AB
group AB | the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens |
O
type O
group O | the blood group whose red cells carry neither the A nor B antigens, people with type O blood are universal donors |
linkage group
linked genes | any pair of genes that tend to be transmitted together, the genes of Drosophila fall into four linkage groups |
ABO blood group system
ABO system
ABO group | a classification system for the antigens of human blood, used in blood transfusion therapy, four groups are A and B and AB and O |
| conversation piece | something interesting that stimulates conversation |
group
mathematical group | a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse |
| group theory | the branch of mathematics dealing with groups |
Abelian group
commutative group | a group that satisfies the commutative law |
| group dynamics | the branch of social psychology that studies the psychodynamics of interaction in social groups |
sheet
piece of paper
sheet of paper | paper used for writing or printing |
liaison
link
contact
inter-group communication | a channel for communication between groups, he provided a liaison with the guerrillas |
| piece | an artistic or literary composition, he wrote an interesting piece on Iran, the children acted out a comic piece to amuse the guests |
| think piece | an article in a newspaper or magazine or journal that represents opinions and ideas and discussion rather than bare facts |
writing
written material
piece of writing | the work of a writer, anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect), the writing in her novels is excellent, that editorial was a fine piece of writing |